Birds from Madoc Books

London: Paternoster Row: Groombridge and Sons, 1855. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. MORRIS Beverley R.. In contemporary half calf over cloth, some repairs, edges & corners worn. Spine, raised bands, blind tooling, gilt titles to black morocco label. Internally, [3], (iv) only, [1], 2-252 pp, 60 pls (coloured), ink name… Read more about this item

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London, : Longman & Co . 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. MEYER H.L.. The vary rare First Folio (Longman) edition of one of the most valuable illustrated works on Ornithology: With over 300 superb Hand Coloured Folio Plates First edition, no date [circa 1835-1844], four volumes in 2, tall… Read more about this item

London: Paternoster Row: Groombridge and Sons, 1864. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. MORRIS F.O.. With One Hundred & Fifty Four coloured plates Two volumes in purple cloth, corners rubbed. Spines, gilt titles & library nos, edges bumped. Internally Vol 1, 1864, frontis, [2], (iv), [1], 2-156 pp, 78… Read more about this item

London, New York Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras. 39 Paternoster Row. & Fourth Avenue & 30th Street, New York.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1918. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. WITH EIGHTY TWO PLATES IN COLOUR, SHOWING OVER FOUR HUNDRED SPECIES Four Volumes, mixed editions (2*4th, 2*3rd), in red cloth, gilt edge tooling, corners bumped.… Read more about this item

Hardcover. Near Fine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. ALKEN Henry. With Sixteen superb Water Colours An Album of sixteen water colour and pencil drawings of game birds, one unsigned, the others bearing the signature H. Alken. The drawings range from 2.5*4 inches to 10* 7.75 inches, Folio. Each drawing elaborately matted and bound into an imposing… Read more about this item

London: Fleet Street: J. White, 1802. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With Twenty Five Bird Plates First editions, 25 pls (1 hand coloured-complete as listed), 3 vols in 2, ie 2 vol dictionary bound as 1, plus the Supplement Volume, in red half morocco over brown marbled boards, some blind… Read more about this item

London: 6. Tenterden Street, W. and Soho Square: R.H. Porter; and Messrs. Dulau & Co., , 1881. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. NEALE E.. With 114 Hand Coloured Lithographed Plates 1881-1887, VG+, First edition, 3 volumes in the original fifteen parts, collates as per Ellis/Mengel, with 114 hand coloured… Read more about this item

Newcastle: Pilgrim Street: T. Bewick by Edward Walker, 1821. Hardcover. Very Good. BEWICK Thomas. The first edition, in which the supplement appeared. VG+, 1821. Two volumes in long grain morocco boards, gilt edge tooling, corners & edges rubbed. Both volumes professionally re-spined, raised bands, gilt tooling, gilt titles to… Read more about this item

London: Paternoster Row: John Van VOORST, 1843. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original edition of the principal handbook on British Birds published during the 19th C. It is accurate, well written and the illustrations are excellent. Yarrell recorded his subjects in a way that became a model for later authors. … Read more about this item

London: No 1, Great Piazza, Covent Garden; 136 Strand.: G. Willis; Willis and Sotheran, 1853. 2nd Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. MEYER H.L.. Near Fine, complete, 7 volumes, 1853-1857, 322 hand coloured lithographs of birds, plus, 105 hand coloured lithographs depicting 270 eggs, plus 8 uncoloured lithographs illustrating 16 figures.… Read more about this item

London: 6 Tenterden Street, and Soho Sq, London: Published for the Author by R.H. Porter and Dulau & Co., 1883. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Henry Seebohm. Complete with all 68 chromolithographed plates & 99 illustrations. 4 Volumes in uniform half dark green morocco over dark green cloth, some gilt… Read more about this item

Newcastle: Beilby & Bewick, 1797. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. BEWICK Thomas. A magnificently-bound example, Authors presentation copy (1798), 1797 & 1804, First Editions, 1st issue. In early twentieth-century red morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, covers with single fillet border enclosing central panel with floral sprays… Read more about this item

London: York Street, Covent Garden: George Bell and Sons, 1870. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. MORRIS FO. 6 complete volumes, attractive gilt bird images, 2nd edition, 1870, 365 hand coloured plates (as called for). VG+ in the publishers green embossed cloth, spines with gilt titles &… Read more about this item

Newcastle: London.: Edward Walker. and Longman and Rees., 1805. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. BEWICK Thomas. Two Vols, 3rd & 2nd editions, 1805, VG+, 414 illustrations in total. In Royal Octavo, contemporary speckled full calf, corners & edges rubbed. Spines, decorative gilt tooling, gilt titles to green calf… Read more about this item

Witton Lodge, Witton, Norwich, Norfolk, NR13 5AS: Greyfriars Books & Prints Ltd, 1990. Limited Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Tall folio, Fine, Ltd ed, 12 pls, 1990. In a lime green portfolio, 36.5*27 cms, black ink titles to upper cover, [4], (iv) leaves, 12 leaves of… Read more about this item

London, Paris & New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co:. Hardcover. Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. GIACOMELLI Hector 1822-1904. Tall folio, 15 pls, 56 illus. In half c1920 morocco, with brown cloth, some decorative blind tooling, corners and edges bumped and rubbed. Spine, blind tooling, titles in gilt to brown calf label,… Read more about this item

Witton Lodge, Witton, Norwich, Norfolk.: Greyfriars Books & Prints Ltd., 1990. Limited Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. THORBURN Archibald. A portfolio containing a facsimile of the original edition of 1919, to include, titlepage of 1990, titlepage of 1919, 2 leaf preface, limitation leaf, plate list leaf, (12) leaves of text to accompany the plates, 12 plates (all… Read more about this item

Fleet Street, London: B White, 1781. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. BANKS Joseph. Tall 8vo, VG, 71 B&W plates, 1st & 2nd eds. In contemporary full brown calf, corners and edges a little bumped and worn, some marks. Spines, have been relaid, but retaining most of the old, raised… Read more about this item